Adam and Eve (Cranach, Florence)

Adam and Eve is a pair of paintings by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, dating from 1528,[1] housed in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

Eve holds the traditional apple, with the serpent coming to her from above from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The work was part of the Tuscan Grand Dukes' collections since as early as 1688, and has been included in the Uffizi since the beginning of the 18th century.

The subject continues Dürer's anatomy studies, which had culminated in his large Adam and Eve panels now in the Museo del Prado.

During his stay in Vienna, Cranach had frequented some groups of humanists who were close to Dürer, and from there he was inspired to do a first, smaller version of the theme of Adam and Eve in 1510, currently housed at the National Museum in Warsaw.